Synonyms and Antonyms of realistic
1
willing to see things as they really are and deal with them sensibly
- high schoolers who need to be more realistic in their career choices, as so few people end up as rock stars
idealless, philistine, utilitarian
commonsensical, grounded, levelheaded, logical, no-nonsense, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible, sober, sobersided, sound
bottom-line, hard, hard-boiled, hard-edged, tough-minded, unromantic, unsentimental
cynical, disillusioned, misanthropic, pessimistic
distrustful, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious
fanciful, fantastic (also fantastical), imaginative
romantic, sentimental
cheerful, optimistic, rose-colored
trustful, trusting, unsuspicious
half-baked, illogical, insane, irrational, unreasonable
theoretical (also theoretic)
2
closely resembling the object imitated
- those special effects look really realistic—I'd never guess they were all computer-generated
alike, like, matching, similar, verisimilar
akin, analogous, approximate, comparable, resembling
accurate, close, faithful, true
compelling, convincing
expressive, graphic (also graphical), gritty, vivid
dissimilar, off, unalike, unlike
incomparable, unmatched
contrasted, contrasting, different, disparate
fake, mock, phony (also phoney), sham
